On 12/13/05, andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> >> That's the Oberon part.
> >
> > Some of that is true, but they do more checking than
> > Oberon, and they can verify the bytecodes they ship around
> > while Oberon could make no such guarantee about its binaries.
> >
> > Russ
>
> i thought the problem was that they didn't reference other systems. i
> don't think anyone claims their work is purely derivative.
>

The subject of this thread is about MS Research reinventing Inferno... I
think that's a good indication some people thought it was "merely"
derivative :)

Dave